[BioPython] "Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills"

[Dinu Gherman]

Hi,

I just discovered that ORA will publish this book in april:

  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/

  "Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills" is for scientists and 
  students who are learning computational approaches to biology for 
  the first time, as well as for experienced biology researchers who 
  are just starting to use computers to handle their data. The book 
  covers the Unix file system, building tools and databases for
  bioinformatics, computational approaches to biological problems, 
  an introduction to Perl for bioinformatics, data mining, and data 
  visualization."

Makes me wonder if "learning computational approaches... for 
the first time" is ideally left to the Perl league, or if it
should be? Or does anybody know if this book also mentions
(or even *uses*) other 'scripting' languagues as well?

Regards,

Dinu

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